The
Ministry of Finance and Public Function
has agreed to hire
926 workers
to reinforce the staff of the State Public Employment
Service
(
SEPE
, the former Inem), as decided at a meeting held this Monday.
The measure, although it seeks to alleviate the
lack of personnel
that this body has, has been described as "
insufficient
" by
CSIF
, the most representative union in the public sector.
"After months of claims by our union due to the lack of means and the problems in the management of benefits in this body, the Government has agreed with us and has authorized the
extraordinary job offer
that we have been demanding, although this will be of just 926 seats, "the union said in a statement.
This extraordinary hiring implies that there will be
a new worker for each customer service office
that the SEPE has, but the rest of the units that support these branches will not be strengthened. "
The serious situation faced by the SEPE will not be resolved
. It must be taken into account that since December 2009 the workforce has been reduced by
3,674 people
, according to data from the body itself. In addition, the
1,500 interim
hired as reinforcement
have been dispensed with
as consequence of the covid ", has lamented CSIF.
Added to this reduction in the workforce is the fact that in 2020 there have been
430 retirements and vegetative leave
, hence the union of public employees demands that at least
3,500 new people
be hired
.
Because of this personal lack, CSIF denounces, there are
ten SEPE offices without any cash
and closed;
37 with a single cash;
91 with two troops;
115 with three troops and 61 with four troops.
In other words, 44% of the 711 face-to-face offices barely work with 1, 2, 3 or four people.
Added to the problems of lack of staff is the fact that the
technology
used by this organization is
obsolete and outdated
, which gives rise to computer problems such as the
cyberattack
that the organization suffered in March or the incident that took place this month .
in Madrid and Barcelona, for which more than 50,000 people will be left without receiving their unemployment benefit, due to a technical modification in the computer application used to manage ERTE.
"All this is a consequence, as we have been denouncing throughout the pandemic, of the
very serious lack of personnel
to manage the benefits and the
obsolescence of the computer applications
with which we are developing our work," claims CSIF.
Labor workers have threatened to go on strike
The poor working conditions of these public employees have led representatives of eight unions with a presence at the Ministry of Labor to threaten to
go on strike in February
if improvements are not made.
For now, it is the 2,800 employees of the
Labor Inspectorate
who are most in favor of the strike - since although five months ago the Ministry agreed with the unions to increase the workforce, there has still been no progress - but those of the SEPE are also unhappy.
The Government has recently authorized in the Council of Ministers an increase in spending to allocate
59 million
euros to renew the
agency's
infrastructure and IT services
, but this amount does not imply an improvement on the previous contract that was in force.
As sources from the
Ministry of Labor
have explained
to this medium, "it is the budget for contracting through open procedure support services and evolution of infrastructures and systems for the development and evolution of computer applications for the analysis and management of services of the SEPE before the end of current contracts in order to maintain continuity in the performance of the work ", and the contract is for an amount" very similar "to the previous one.
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